Investment objective & strategy
As of July 28, 2025 · prospectusObjective. The Strategic Income Fund seeks to maximize long-term total return without tracking any particular markets or indices.
Strategy. The Fund pursues its objective by utilizing a flexible investment approach that allocates investments across a range of global investment opportunities related to credit, currencies and interest rates. Satisfying the Funds objective would require it to achieve positive total returns over a full market cycle, i.e. , a period of time generally understood to be contained between two consecutive periods of heightened default activity within the global fixed income markets. Total return includes income and capital gains, but the Funds strategy is also intended to produce high income. To implement some or all of these strategies, the Funds portfolio investments typically include corporate bonds, mezzanine investments, bank loans, preferred stock, common stock, warrants, convertible bonds, municipal securities, mortgage-related and asset-backed … The Fund pursues its objective by utilizing a flexible investment approach that allocates investments across a range of global investment opportunities related to credit, currencies and interest rates. Satisfying the Funds objective would require it to achieve positive total returns over a full market cycle, i.e. , a period of time generally understood to be contained between two consecutive periods of heightened default activity within the global fixed income markets. Total return includes income and capital gains, but the Funds strategy is also intended to produce high income. To implement some or all of these strategies, the Funds portfolio investments typically include corporate bonds, mezzanine investments, bank loans, preferred stock, common stock, warrants, convertible bonds, municipal securities, mortgage-related and asset-backed securities (including collateralized debt obligations, which in turn include collateralized bond obligations and collateralized loan obligations), derivatives of asset-backed securities (including those involving net interest margins), other derivatives including credit default swaps and other swaps, currency futures and other futures, and options, foreign securities, U.S. Treasuries and agency securities, cash and cash equivalents, private placements, defaulted debt securities, restricted securities and unrated securities. The Funds fixed income investments may have interest rates that are fixed, variable or floating. Under normal circumstances, the average dollar-weighted credit quality of the Funds long-term debt investments is investment grade or unrated and determined by the Adviser to be of comparable quality. The Fund may invest up to 50% of its assets in debt securities rated below investment grade (commonly known as junk bonds), or unrated and determined by the Adviser to be of comparable quality. The Fund invests in the U.S. and abroad, including emerging markets. The Fund may invest up to 25% of its assets in foreign securities that are denominated in U.S. dollars. Investments in securities of foreign issuers that are not denominated in U.S. dollars are limited to a maximum of 30% of the Funds assets. The Fund may also invest up to 15% of its assets in emerging market securities. Derivatives are used in an effort to hedge investments, for risk management, or to increase income or gains for the Fund. The Fund may also seek to obtain market exposure to the securities in which it invests by entering into a series of purchase and sale contracts or by using other investment techniques. The Fund may normally borrow or sell securities short each up to 33 1/3% of the value of its total assets.
Top holdings
As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT| Security | Ticker | Value | % of fund |
|---|---|---|---|
| TCW Central Cash Fund | — | $8.50M | 15.10% |
| US TREASURY N/B | — | $3.03M | 5.40% |
| FNCL 3.5 4/26 | — | $1.81M | 3.22% |
| FNCL 4.5 4/26 | — | $1.59M | 2.83% |
| TCW Private Asset Income Fund | — | $974.23K | 1.73% |
| FNCL 5 4/26 | — | $912.10K | 1.62% |
| G2SF 4 4/23 | — | $865.93K | 1.54% |
| FNCL 5.5 4/26 | — | $728.44K | 1.29% |
| FNCL 4 4/26 | — | $684.00K | 1.22% |
| US TREASURY N/B | — | $643.98K | 1.14% |
Portfolio moves
Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.
Similar funds
Funds whose portfolios most overlap this one, by weight| Fund | Overlap | Net exp. |
|---|---|---|
| TCW STRATEGIC INCOME FUND INC | 47% | — |
| TCW METWEST UNCONSTRAINED BOND FUND · MWCRX, MWCIX, MWCPX | 36% | 0.69% |
| TCW METWEST TOTAL RETURN BOND FUND · MWTIX, MWTRX, MWTNX, MWTSX, MWTTX | 31% | 0.37% |
Advisers
| Firm | Role |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN WEST ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC | Adviser |
Footnotes
- Expense ratio as of July 28, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
- Net assets and holdings count as of March 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
- Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).
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